Archive for February, 2012

As you may be aware, this has been a very difficult week for independently-published erotica authors. First, Bookstrand determined that certain elements–some legal and some illegal–were not allowed in books they published. This was as per an edict from PayPal. Quickly, Bookstrand moved to close down all independent author accounts, though it appears those same elements are allowed in books from small presses, including Siren, their in-house publishing arm.

ARE jumped in this week as well, reclassifying their books as romance or erotica, and any books with the “banned by PayPal” themes were removed from sale.

Last evening, Smashwords joined the charge, albeit very reluctantly.

The themes that PayPal objects to include bestiality, rape as titillation, books that enforce or emphasize hate against any group of people, “barely-legal” teen girls in erotic situations, and incest. And pseudo incest. Many more eloquent than myself have written about the wrongness of a third party censoring what a business sells, and I’m sure anyone reading this blog can ascertain my feelings on this, so I’ll spare you my rantings and get down to the practicalities of this post.

As you probably know, I write a fair bit of pseudo incest, and I’m finding the sales venues for that severely curtailed. So…a new Storm is coming.

You will *not* be able to buy any of my books at Bookstrand. Their decision, and I can do nothing to change this.

You can buy a limited number of my titles (Angel is a Centerfold, Acting on Impulse, Carissa’s Diary) currently at ARE. None of these are PI titles. I do hope to be able to upload revisions of most of the stories in my catalogue within a month to six weeks. This is ARE’s timeline and not mine. These stories will not have any PI elements, as per ARE and PayPal’s edicts.

You will be able to buy *revised* versions of most of my titles at Smashwords, beginning tonight. These titles will be Non-PI versions of my stories. Some are heavily revised and I’ve added more than a thousand words to the story (Art of Lust, I’m looking in your direction!), while others are more lightly revised. I’ve indicated the revision level in every blurb. If you have questions on a title, you can always email me, and I’ll fill you in.

Give me the better part of a week to get everything up at Smashwords.

I’ll be selling both PI and non-PI versions of my stories on Amazon and B&N. The various versions will be denoted by a “Storm Intensity” scale, which is as follows.

If you’re a reader who typically finds my books at All Romance Ebooks or Bookstrand, you may have noticed that my books are no longer for sale there, or at least not quite the same books blurbed here. Over the last week. both Bookstrand and ARE have banned, among other things, rape as titillation, bestiality, real incest, and, quite inexplicably pseudo incest. Yes, psuedo incest where the characters are not biologically related. Where the characters have no legal ties getting in the way of them becoming romantically/sexually involved.

I’m not sure if I’ll be editing my titles for future upload to Bookstrand and ARE. That remains to be seen at the present time.

I do, however, highly encourage you to shop at Smashwords, Amazon or B&N for the titles as they were written and as they were meant to be enjoyed.

When Aidan sees Trent in a magazine spread, he can’t help thinking carnal thoughts. The years have been very kind to his former son in law, and Trent is single, able to address the sexual temptation they’d battled throughout Trent’s marriage. But is Trent ready or willing to meet his former father-in-law man to man—in every sexual way he can imagine?

When Julia is captivated by a young, handsome actor, she can’t imagine his connection to her. She’s fighting a serious case of lust for her deceased husband’s son, and Daniel is just as attracted to her. Will the ghosts of their past keep them apart or drive them together? Can Daniel and Julia fight their all-consuming lust?

Robert, widower and famous actor could have any woman he wanted, but it’s his stepdaughter, Jade who blazes through his dreams every night. Every night he wakes, her name on his lips, his climax tearing through him. But Jade is forbidden, or is she? When Robert learns a startling truth about his sexy stepdaughter, all bets are off.

Rick has a great sexual arrangement with his adopted son, Keith, and Keith’s stepson, Damien. Though they play with BDSM, it is always with strict parameters, and Damien is never the Dom. But when Damien’s dominant role in a movie opens his lovers’ eyes, all men stand to gain from the arrangement.